When are passport office strikes and how to renew your UK passport?

Passport bureau workers volition spell connected onslaught for 5 weeks betwixt 3 April to 5 May, implicit a quality astir jobs, wage and conditions.

A 4th of the Passport Office's 4,000 employees are expected to locomotion out.

What does that mean if you request to get a caller passport?

You tin renew your passport online oregon by post.

It costs £82.50, payable by debit oregon recognition card.

You volition request your existing passport and a integer photograph.

You tin besides renew utilizing a insubstantial exertion form, and this costs £93. You tin wage by debit oregon recognition card, oregon by cheque.

You tin get the signifier from immoderate station bureau which has a cheque and nonstop service, oregon by calling the Passport Adviceline.

You volition request 2 caller and identical printed photos of yourself.

The Passport Office recommends you person your photos taken successful a booth oregon astatine a photograph store due to the fact that they are much apt to walk the standards for a passport photo.

A photograph taken successful these places volition travel with a codification that you tin usage to upload the pictures to your online application.

If you instrumentality your photographs astatine home, you volition request idiosyncratic other to instrumentality them utilizing a integer camera, tablet oregon smartphone.

There are strict standards for a passport photo, which you tin work here.

You volition request to person 1 of 2 caller people photos validated if renewing a passport for a kid aged 11 oregon under, oregon if you are renewing your ain passport and you cannot beryllium recognised from your existing passport.

If you person unexpired visas successful your existing passport, nonstop it with the visa attached to it on with your application.

Your erstwhile passport volition beryllium returned to you and you volition beryllium capable to usage the visa if you transportation some passports.

The Passport Office says you should use for a caller passport 10 weeks earlier you are owed to travel.

If you request a passport urgently, you tin wage other to get it sooner.

You volition request to publication an assignment and sojourn your nearest passport bureau successful idiosyncratic and wage online. You tin publication an assignment up to 3 weeks successful advance.

If you request a passport urgently oregon for aesculapian attraction oregon due to the fact that a person oregon household subordinate is earnestly sick oregon has died, the authorities proposal is to telephone the Passport Adviceline .

If you are travelling abroad, you request to renew your passport if it has expired oregon if it does not person capable clip near connected it.

How overmuch clip you request connected your passport depends connected the state you are readying to visit. You tin cheque this on the authorities website.

For Spain, France, Greece and different fashionable summertime destinations successful the EU, your passport needs to beryllium valid for astatine slightest 3 months aft the day you program to permission the state you are visiting.

And your passport should beryllium issued little than 10 years earlier the day you are readying to participate Spain oregon different EU country.

The authorities says the onslaught does not impact their guidance which is inactive to let up to 10 weeks to get a passport.

A Home Office spokesperson said:

"We are disappointed with the union's determination to onslaught aft engaging successful constructive talks to find a resolution.

"We are moving to negociate the interaction of onslaught enactment whilst ensuring we tin proceed to present captious services to the public, with broad contingency plans successful place."

This was owed to a surge successful demand, arsenic coronavirus question restrictions were lifted.

There were much than 7 cardinal passport applications betwixt January and September 2022. The busiest period was May erstwhile much than 1.2m requests for passports were submitted.